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Action Talks, Armchair Pundits Walk
It is remarkable how polarised the discussion of the OLPC has become. You either love it or hate it. I have already said my own say about the value of the OLPC but there is one point that I don’t...
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Africa Burns for a Village Telco
“Africa Burns for a Village Telco” is the subject line of an email sent to me from Bruce Strover. And really who could resist a subject line like that especially if the Village Telco has been your...
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What I liked about the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship
Guilty admission. I am a fault finder. Show me a perfect rose and I will find the petal that is slightly wilted. Or at least that’s how I grew up. I’ve spent much of my adult life learning to behave...
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Sympathy for the Tinkerer
Tinkering gets a bad rap and I am making it my personal mission to rehabilitate the term. I keep an eye out for articles about tinkering and it is dismaying to see tinkerers getting the same raw deal...
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Cape Town to Lunenburg
Yesterday I touched down with my family in Halifax, Canada, our new home for the next few years. Well, actually near there, a small town south of Halifax called Lunenburg. When you have a foot in...
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that any person in possession of a mobile phone must be in want of an Internet connection. Please allow that mangling of Jane Austen to exist as a placeholder...
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Failure to TED
Recently a bot informed me that it was the 2 year anniversary of my speaking at TED Global 2014. And that reminded me of what I have been putting off writing for a while, putting off well, because I...
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The Internet Is U-Shaped
When we think about the problem of achieving affordable access to the Internet for all, the discussion often focuses on broadband targets. These targets are moving goalposts as infrastructure...
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